Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Oldtown (bennett), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (bennett)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48253, -8.39586
- SMR number
- LI033-162----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of a group of five possible ditch-barrows (LI033-176/79----). Cropmark of ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 18/11/2018 at this location. Outline of barrow clearly visible on OSi orthoimage taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 30 August 2013
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.